NME to end their print publication
NME’s print magazine is no more https://t.co/lR5qofsVvk
— Pitchfork (@pitchfork) March 7, 2018
-The British publication will see its final issue go out this week
-NME.com will add 2 audio channels: One for new music and another for the classics
-“Increasing production costs and a very tough print advertising market” are to blame
-A new paid-for print magazine called NME Gold will start soon
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That's really not the NME I knew from my own teen/early twenties years, if this is what they've come to then good riddance.
I still feel bad for what they used to be tho.
Edited at 2018-03-08 02:18 am (UTC)
Although tbh Rolling Stone's podcasts are great! (well, the topics that interest me are)
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That’s was it.
The Beth Ditto and the Art Brut guy’s covers were the only iconic thing I can think of in recent memory
I remember them declaring rock dead during the rave era lol. Then the noughties happened.
It was a fun mag tho, it's a shame the old music culture is disappearing.
A lot of music journalism was fun trashy stuff like trying to froth up a scene where there was none, but It was still tongue and cheek and exciting...and there really was an art to writing about music... Idk it’s sad to see print go. I guess because i spent so much time reading the music rags growing up. What’s gone is gone and the end of the printed copy is really just the final nail.
But them kissing the asses of pop stars that old nme would have scathingly ruined, was probably the death knell. It does feel a bit sad tho, I mean there's still Mojo and Q I guess but idk how those have been in recent years.